Get creative with this unique journal that guides and encourages you to reflect on your day in the style of everyone's favorite short-form poem-the haiku. What would you say about your life if you had just seventeen syllables to do so? How would you describe your earliest memory, your hero, or something as simple as a walk around your neighborhood? This journal encourages you to look around your world through a new lens by creating haiku. Get inspired by 102 wildly creative prompts from the founders of The Haiku Guys and Gals, follow the simple rules for writing haiku, and turn all your experiences-mundane and sublime-into little pieces of poetry.

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The Haiku Guys & Gals are a multicultural and international company of poets who have mastered the art of writing haiku for western audiences. Bringing performance poetry to a new era, they are hired to bring typewriters to events, where they craft custom haiku for attendees upon request. They have worked with Google, Women's Wear Daily, Bloomberg, the Brooklyn Public Library, Barnes & Noble, and more.

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This unique journal guides and encourages you to reflect on your day in the style of everyone's favorite short-form poem-the haiku. It offers 102 creative prompts to help you think about different aspects of your life and capture them in 17 syllables. Conceived by the Haiku Guys & Gals, this journal also contains examples of their poems for inspiration. The prompts encourage you to write haiku on a range of subjects: a tribute to your hero, an ode to a childhood memory, a note on the weather, or an observation about your day. The journal also provides a brief history of the haiku, a basic explanation of how it is comprised, and some tips for getting into a haiku-writing frame of mind. Whether you skip around or proceed with the prompts in order, 102 Haiku Journal, encourages both creativity and self-reflection, all in a beautiful little package.